it V M ..-llljQl e THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT Sept; 18,1902 it 3 n it it tz tz it zz mam aric s p 9 tter The Alger Barrel to Be Tapped Again White Capping in Massachu- setts More Evidence I of Republican Harmony wwwwnaawwwwwv IS 8 8 tz fx (Special Washington Letter. GOOD many of the newspapers are poking fun at Hon. Tom L. Johnson for endeavoring to Induce an eminent divine of . his city to run for congress. Just why they should undertake to make fun of that proposition is hard to understand. First and Inst a good many preachers have got into congress, and as a rule they have demonstrated their capacity as legislators. It is a fact not gen erally remembered, but nevertheless a fact, that Edward Everett was a dis tinguished minister of the gospel be fore he began his great career as a statesman. It is but sober truth to say that in his official career he never did a thing or ut'ered a word incompatible with the highest standard of Christian conduct. General James A. Garfield "was an amateur preacher; so was Gov ernor and Senator Colquitt of Georgia. I myself have served in the house with half a dozen preachers, among them Dr. William Everett, son of Ed ward Everef-; Judge Vardeman Cock- rell of Texas. Delegate Callahan of Ok lahoma. Jeremiah ttotkin of Kansas und others, as the sale bills say, too tedious to mention. So far as I was ever able to obsrrve, they attended to their duties ably and intelligently without in 'iny way sacrificing their character as ministers of the gospel. Consequently I am one of those who do not join in the funmaklng in the case of Tom Johnson and his preacher. I would not advise any preacher to run for congress, but If one who feels that he has a cull to go to congress does so 1 think he Is liable to acquit himself about as well as the average member, and there is no reason under the shining sun why he should not leave congress as good a Christian as he enters it. As n matter of fjict. a few preachers scattered around through congress wtnild do good. I am rather inclined to the opinion that it would help the preachers themselves by giv ing them a broader and more charita ble view of human nature. Republican Harmony. , Frequently in these fetters I have re ferred to the fact that the Republicans rend and tear each other individually and collectively. In all their abuse of each other nothing more caustic has come under my observation than this excerpt from the New York Commer cial Advertiser touching that eminent Republican statesman, the Hon. Lem uel Ell Qulgg: Why Quig-g? What particular reason Is there for Mr. Tlatt to reach back into the political obscurity which has envel oped Quigg like a soft and soothing gar ment for a ear or more and lift him forcibly Into the public gaze apain? Mr. Piatt must be In possession of the rea son: nobody else has it. In fact, nearly verybody else In the party seems to have several plausible reasons why Quigg should be left undisturbed. Nobody has asked that he be made temporary chair man of the state convention, v.-hila a large number of persons, many of them of weight and Influence in the party, have protested against such Irritating use of him. They say It would 'queer" the convention. Why it should "Queer" it Is not clear, but there seems to be a feeling of uneasiness in many sections of the party when Quigg's name is men tioned or his engaging countenance is disclosed. Quirrg can' scarcely be Ig norant of this. The gentlemen who suf fer In this way have spoken of their feel ings with great frankness. Thpy are speaking In that way even now. They do rot see the need of this fresh torture. Why should Mr. Piatt subject them to it, and why should Quigg wish to be made the Instrument of it? It is a great mys tery: but then from the moment of his appearance In politics to the present hour Qulgg has been a mystery. Russell A. Alger Redivlvus. The death of Senator McMillan of Michigan affords the Hon. Russell A. Alger an opportunity of emerging from that obscurity which becomes him so well. He bobs up serenely as a candi date for the succession. He has the one qualification, the one thing need ful, for a successful Republican career in Michigan a barrel and what pleases the Republicans most about Russell Is that when be wants any thing he taps his barrel liberally; he not only opens the bung, but he knocks in the head- Hence there is much ju bilation In the Michigan Republican camp. There are great times ahead for Republican members of the Michi gan legislature. It will be remembered question Is to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord,. for the Repub lican factions will surely tear each other to pieces in this bitter war. It is really a Roosevelt and anti-Uoose-velt fight under the guise of a tariff row. The Hartford Courant. a Repub- lican organ, dJpg mto the controversy la the following racy fashion: The Delaware Republicans say ditto to the Iowa Republicans. At their congres sional convention It Dover Tuesday they declared themselves supporters of the reciprocity policy as expounded by Wil liam McKInley at Buffalo and as applied by Theodore Roosevelt to the case of Cuba. They want to see the combinations of capital that are enhancing the prices Df the necessaries of life brought up with a round turn by state and federal stat- I utes. Another thing the Delaware Re race other multimillionaires will enter Publlcans want to see is "the modification race oiner multimillionaires win emer, of revcnue aws that strenafthen 8uch and all will go merry as a marriage combinations." beil in the legislature of Michigan, pro-, preaching Versus Practice, vided it is Republican, which God for- j while President Roosevelt is caper bid: j lng around over the country talking Et Tu, Brute! j volubly and vociferously about what O tempore, O mores! For, lo, these he Is. going to do to the trusts his at many years the effete east, especially torney general, the Hon. Philander C. Massachusetts, has been making Knox, is enjoying himself In Europe, mouths at the south and west as a bar- The truth is that Colonel Roosevelt barian country because occasionally could do more in one week to break up some conspicuous criminal is lynched, the trusts by bringing Mr. Knox back They have delivered to us all sorts and from Europe and instituting criminal lengths of lectures, denounced us as proceedings against them than he semlcivllized If not wholly savage and could by talking about them from now have greatly enjoyed themselves by till doomsday. The trusts care abso- B. H. ROBISOII, PRESIDENT OFFERS A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT AND GROWING WEST REGARDING THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE In An Interview Which It Will Pay All Insurers and Would-Be In surers to Read. thanking God that they were not as other people, especially as the people of the south and west. But the mouth of the old Bay State Is In the dust in these latter days, filer pride is in the mud. and she lifts up her voice and cries: "Peccavi! Peccavi!" Up In the village of Marion, a pleasant summer outing place in Plymouth county, Mass. only think of it. in Plymouth county the citizens look a poor wretch named McDonald, tarred him, feath ered him and rode him on a rail, a gen uine case of White Capping. The job could -not have been done in better style down in Mississippi or out in bleeding , Kjiii:--;i5. All of the partici pants were dLigubed. but are said to be respectable citizens. Sometimes scoundrels are lynched in the south and west for huch -crimes as rape, ar son and niunh r. :u d on such occasions Massachusi Us li.ss been in the habit of rolling bv-r eyes toward heaven and condemning the events on general and g ;-'-;' !;.: i principles. For what crime wj; dus Mc; -on:: id White Cap ped in tiie ;iiai.':if It! an oh. county of Plymouth w:d .'ij:ui-jnwv jltLi of Mas sachusetts 7 The sole charge against hiia was that he wjis a lazy, dissolute loafer, addicted !o ti-e society of dis- reputa Die peT.osi- ot uotn sexes, .now, lutely nothing about talk, no matter from what source it emanates, but they do care a great deal about a vig orously conducted- criminal prosecu tion. They don't care much about In junctions and restraining orders, but a few carefully drawn indictments would set them to thinking very seri ously. While Colonel Roosevelt Is de livering his orations and Mr. Knox is luxuriating among the splendors of the old world the trusts will squeeze a few more millions out of the unhappy consumers. Colonel Roosevelt may take himself seriously as to a war up on, the trusts, but nobody else will un less he brings Mr. Knox back home and assays them front, flank and rear. Republican Extravagance. Representative Sulzer of New York made a very able speech on the last day of the recent session of congress, in which he summed up the Republic an extravagances of that session and expatiated at some length on the sins of the G. O. P. I have only space to quote a few paragraphs of this very able speech. Sulzer is a hard worker and a hard hitter. He began thus: We have bt-ea In session since the first Mondi-.y of List December. It has been Indeed a Ion,' nession. and It has been the most cxi 'nsive session of congress ever held in aii our history. We have spent a if Massachusetts la golna to White Cap treat sal of the people's money-nearly ,. ., ' " , ' , , a billion dollars. And what for? Let us uu persons oi tuai cnaractT wii'mii her border siie will have her hands so ; full that .she will not have time to at tend to the strr.-iirs of the people of the south and west. All of which goes to show that human nature Is very much the same, whether in South Carolina or in Massachusetts. see. I hold in my hand a statement of the appropriations marie this session, and I ask the cl'-:k to read it. The clerk r i.d as follows: appkopiuat:- s of the fifty-seventh co:;g jis'.i. nr.jr session. O-'nitiing hundreds. Urgent deficiency Pension Consular and diplomatic Second urgent deficiency Of course it is customary to charge that the lviichimr habit is confined 'to Posto'fffce rw,ww.,.oti,. .....t,,,, .,.,..,...-.;,. Third urgent deficiency u.n..uv w "' Legislative, executive and judl- which, of course, there is not a syllable cial 25.39S.000 $20,384,000 133,b42,000 1.95S.000 193.000 138.472,000 75,000 of truth. Judge Lynch frequently holds Ordnance and fortifications court out in bleeding Kansas, "where Fourth urgent deficiency .... , . . . . . , . Omnibus claims bill the soul of old John Brown is supposed Agricultural to be always marching on. West V'ir- Rivers and harbors ginia Is overwhelmingly Republican. A week or two ago they lynched two men In that state and then after the lynching discovered that they were In nocent, a discovery that didn't do the victims very much good. Marse Henry. Maise Henry Watterson in a letter declining to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky wrote a very brilliant letter, as he always does when he writes at all. Among the reasons assigned for his declination is that he is too old to turn rascal. That Is certainly an amaz ing declaration to come from one of Colonel Watterson's position and ex perience. If it was intended for hu mor, it should have been labeled, "This is a joke." If intended seriously, it is utterly Incredible that Marse Henry could have worked himself into a frame of mind to say it. He is the best be loved of all Kentuckians; he is one of the most brilliant editors that ever wielded a pen; he has been associated with statesmen all his life. With the Omnibus public buildings bill. Indian Sundry civil District of Columbia Military academy Panama canal (one year) , Army Navy General deficiency Miscellaneous 2,250,000 Permanent appropriations 123,000,000 7,299.000 178,000 1,640.000 5,210,000 65.10S.000 19,425.000 9,080,000 60,125,000 8.54S.0O0 2,627.000, 1S9.130.000 91,530.000 78.681,000 8,250,000 Total J998.403.000 Inow, g-entlemon, that statement speaks for Itself. It cannot be successfully con troverted. This is a Republican con gress, overwhelmingly Republican in both branches, and the Republican party must assume the responsibility for all its acta of commission and omission. The Repub lican party is responsible for all that has been done and all that has been left un done, for all the flagrant extravagance and abuse of power during the first ses sion of the Fifty-seventh congress. A billion . dollar session of congress is an anomaly in our legislative history. I aslc the taxpayers to ponder on these facts. I ask the people how long they are will ing to submit to It and all for a little cheap glory of conquest, all for a little glitter and pomp and circumstance, all for a little tinsel and tassel and gold lace. How long do you want it to last? You can answer In the coming elections. single exception of Governor Taylor, Ask yourself what has this congress done against whom there is an indictment pending at Frankfort for conspiracy to murder. Colonel Watterson never saw a Kentucky governor whose integ rity was seriously doubted by any liv ing human being. The standard of political integrity in Kentucky governors has been high; the vast majority of them are, like Cresar's wife, above suspicion, and no body knows this better than Colonel Watterson himself. He speaks to a very large audience; no other editor in America Is so much quoted; he is the for you; what has it done for the rank and file? Is the Right cf Petition Futile? What has this congress done for labor? Where are the bills which were petitioned for by millions of workingmen? Congress has been deluged with petitions more nu merous than "the leaves In Vallombrosa," and all to no purpose. The Republican party has turned a deaf ear to these pe titions. It has legislated either adversely on them or Ignored them altogether. No man will again be deceived by the Republicans passing a measure in the house and holding it up in the senate, as was done with the antitrust bill in the last congress, but this plan worked so well then that it has been tried again that General Alger was a candidate I wbo is theater than his paper. His only American editor of a great paper with the same idea of deceiving the work for president in 1SSS. and the way ho Btirred up things was absolutely amaz- j lng. He didn't get the nomination, it j is true, but he gave the other candl dates a severe nervous shock. John! Sherman flatly charges in his book of I reminiscences that Alger bought his j .southern delegates away from him. ; If Sherman In bis hour of need had j been as liberal In bis use of boodle as ; be said Alger was, the Ohioan would probably have been president instead I of General Harrison. Poor Alger! He j . was made the scapegoat of all the sin- j ners in the Spanish war and was i squeezed out of the cabinet. He tried to get even by writing a book, but in that respect he is equally unfortunate, for nobody raids 'bis book. But Alger is not certain of his election to the senate, even with his barrel, for there ore barrels and barrels. Senator Me Millau's son is said to have quite a large sized barrel, and the Republican politicians of Michigan who have pulls are fastening their tentacles on young McMillan, trying to get, h!m into the race. The probability Is that if both of these modern Crcesusea enter the principal editorials are sent out by the Associated Press in advance, not un der the line, "The Courier-Journal will say tomorrow," but under the more fetching introduction. "Colonel Henry Watterson will say tomorrow." Thou- Ingmen of the country who have signed these petitions of which I speak. The eight hour bill is a shining example, as well as the immigration bill, the letter carriers' bill, the overtime pay or excess of eight hours on government work bill, the building of warships In govrnment yards bill and the Chinese exclusion bill, all denied except one, the Chinese ex- sands of people believe implicitly In elusion bill, and the legislation on that him-I do myself. I can't get over it riblect was ?lvcrse t0 lhe true "ests to save my life. From the time I first f Amr,can labor- could read the Louisville Courier-Journal was my principal political pabu lum, but I don't believe the Kentucky governors were rascals, that it is nec essary to be a rascal to be governor of Kentucky or that Colonel Watter son believes it. He has no right to talk In such a reckless manner He should I remember the old motto. "Honi soit qui mal y pense." Because ne 13 uni- ; versally beloved, because he is widely believed in. he should make baste to : publicly withdraw that unfortunate tnan tm. staKe of 8ay1ng 'long feet' In expression. Colonel Watterson is not ; KtPiri of 'in fit" False Start. "Once they were sure Gabbleigb was a born humorist." explains the friend. We manifest the required interest and he continues: "But Gabblelch never got further the first eminent man whom the Iovp of epigram has led into utterances con tradicted by the facts of history. Still at It. . It would really appear that all the Democrats have to do on the tariff Expressing regret that the poor man never knew the joy of preparing a bou mot on the topic of a solo that was "so low" It could not be heard, we resume our conversation on the disappoint ments of lif e.Baltimore American. "Yes, I believe the Bankers' Re serve Life Association will have $10, 000,000 at risk upon selected lives in the west, by the close of 1903," said B. Jtu Robison, president of that vigor ous and successful life insurance com pany. "You see the people of the west learned a lesson during the panic which they are not likely to forget. Practically all our savings drifted to the money centers of the east during the prosperous years preceeding 1893. "We were not only large borrowers, paying immense interest charges, but practically all our insurance invest ments were with eastern companies. "They collected $15,000,000 in prem iums during ten years. This large sum was made up of the savings of our policy holders. The bulk of it was loaned back to us at high rates of Interest. In other words we were paying interest on our own money. "This constituted a double draft upon our resources. We first sent our savings east. We then paid interest on the same money and sent that east. When the panic came we were called upon not only to repay the mortgages but the interest charges as Well. We all know what happened. "The organization of great fiduc iary institutions in our midst became a commercial necessity. We must have within our own control the sur plus which balances trade and pre vents financial stringency. "In these years of great plenty we can hoard our own savings and when times of distress come the simple pro cess of transferring our money from one pocket to the other will make a panic less destructive. "I he Bir.kers' Reserve Life Asso ciation sends no money to the Atlan tic seaboard Its surplus remains in this state and financial cataclysms can not put it into money vaults where no benefits can be enjoyed from it. "On this theory of home patronage we are inviting western people to help us whiie we help them in return. "It is a straight business proposi tion, and the people, are becoming en lightened upon , the subject. Hence" the Bankers' -Reserve Life writes more business in Nebraska, its home state where it is best known, than any com peutor. "Nebrasltans especially should place their. life insurance in the BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE." Hardy's Column It is still further settled that Ne braska can stand more drouth and more rain than any state east. Laat year was one of the dryest in Nebraska ever heard of and yet the wheat crop was splendid and the corn was about equal to the New England average yield. This year has been one of the wettest years ever heard of all over. In the east the crops are knocked out. worse than they were in Nebraska, lust year, while in Nebraska never had bigger crops of all kinds. Wheat was damaged in harvest to some extent. It would not do to make war with England, but we need foreign colonies of foreign race3 enough to require a half million standing army. Some thing must be done to make a few bil lionaires for we need them and we need employment for men who do not liae to work. A Growing Question J. S. Freeman of Columbus, Neb., wishes us to explain the cause of hard tin;es in the seventies. We asked the republicans tc explain It expecting they would lay it .o the Wilson tariff bill, which was passed near twenty years after. The chief cause of the hard times then and also in the nineties was the reduction of the volume of legal tender money. The same trou ble will come again should the pres ent congress retire the balance of the greenbacks. It will be still worse should they stop coining silver and make the present silver redeemable in gold. One of the best things to bring good times is the increase of legal tender money faster than the popula tion and business increases. The un usual amount of gold found in Califor nia and Australia made good times in the early fifties. So the increase of ho coinage of silver and gold under A!rKin?ey brought the present good times'. No president ever coined as mach silver before. There are other things that help to make good times. Oood crops at home and poor crops abroad help. If as much silver had been coined under Harrison and Cleve-lan- we would have had no such hard times in the nineties. There is one thing that state govern ments are neglecting and that is the protection of free laborers who want to work in the coal mines or anywhere else. If the state of Pennsylvania cannot do it the government should call home the standing army in the Philippines and place the men on guard at the different mines, with guns loaded with bullets, and protect the men who want to work. This is yet a pretentious free country and one man has no right to prevent another man from working at honest labor. The sham war and sham battles off the coast of New England a few weeks ago cost nearly a million of dollars, all to prepare for coming wars. Times of peace are times to prepare for war. Of course when we are ready for a war we must pitch Into Mexico or some of the South American 5 governments. A suit is being brought before the United States court, testing the con stitutionality of the laws in some of the southern states, prohibiting men from voting whose grandfather did not vote. Yve hope the court will give the case a full hearing and render a just decision. In talKing with high protective tar iff repuDiicans a large majority of tnem think we do not have to nay any tariff unless we buy foreign made goods. They do not seem to know that American manufacturers add the tariff to the price of their American made goods. We surely doubt that the nrice of corn will ever go below 25 cents a bushel In the state nf Kphraska again for a hundred years. The in creased demand for corn is not and can not be matched by an equal increase or production. Fifty years aeo 25 cents for oats, 50 cents for corn and ?1 for wheat was considered fair prices. This is the first year in thirty that we have had three quite severe frosts m the first half of September. It has generally been as late as October be fore any frost appeared. It is a little queer how frost conquers the wind. How still and calm it was during those frosty nights. As soon as the frost retired the wind took possession of the battle field. Frost and wind seem to marry later on. Wheat should all be sown this month. The last week in August was our time for sowing winter wheat back in York state. A fe:v acres of early sown winter rye make splendid late fall and early spring cow feed. One of the widest planks on which labor unions stand is the reduction of the number of workers and the amount of work each one does. Chil dren must not work, women must not, criminal prisoners must not and hon est men must not work more than eight hours a day and two hundred uays in a year. H. W. HARDY. Ruel Hatch, Alton, Me.: The Inde pendent is all right so is Bryan; but you cant save the country; it is doomed. The Woods Investment Oo-isorTfirinp- an excellent opportunity for honae-seekers. See their ad in this paper and write them. They have good land and sell on easy terms. MORE CHEAP EXCURSIONS Via Illinois Central Railroad from Omaha. 1. Indianapolis, Ind $19.40 1. Ft. Wayne, Ind 19.20 1. Toledo, Ohio 21.25 1. Sandusky, Ohio 23.00 Lima, Ohio 21.00 1. Columbus, Ohio 23.10 1. Dayton, Ohio 22.00 1. Springfield, Ohio 22.50 1. Richmond, Ind.. 21.00 1. Kokomo, Ind 18.95 1. Terre Haute, Ind 18.35 1. Evansville, Ind 18.50 1. Cincinnati, Ohio 22.50 1. Louisville, Ky 21.50 1. South Bend, Ind 17.30 1. Logansport, Ind 18.25 2. St. Paul, Minn 9.60 Z. Minneapolis, Minn 9.60 2. Waterville, Minn. (Lake Te- tonka) 7.60 Duluth, Minn 13.60 2. Winnipeg, Manitoba 32.10 2. Spirit Lake, la 8.60 3. Waupaca, Wis 20.95 3. Milwaukee, Wis 18.75 3. Oshkosh, Wis 19.75 3. Port Huron, Mich 22.05 3. Buffalo. N. Y 41.50 1. Dates of sale, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23. Return limit, 30 days. 2. Dates of sale. Sept. 1-10 Inc. Re turn limit, Oct. 31. During the re maining days of August rate will be one fare plus $2.00. 3. Dates of sale, July 1 to Sept 30. Return limit, Oct. 31. Also circuit tours via Duluth or Chi cago and steamer via the Great Lakes. In addition to above, special excursion rates to many other points in Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, etc. Correspondence solicited and infor mation cheerfully given. Call at Illi nois Central Ticket Office, No. 1402 Farnam st., or write W. H. BRILL, Dist. Pass. Agt. 111. Cent. R. R., Omaha, Neb. LOW ONE WAY RATES. Daily during September and October this company will sell from its east ern terminals, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors, one way sec ond class Settlers' tickets as follows: $ 2 2. .5 0 Points Spokane to Ellensburg, Wash ington, inclusive, all points on the Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, branches, Walla Walla, Dayton, Athena, Pendle ton and Waitsburg. $25.00 Sumas, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, inclusive. Including Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, Vancouver, Vic toria, Everett, Whatcom, all points on the Southern Pacific Railway, Port land to Ashland, Oregon, Inclusive main and branch lines. STOP OVERS will be allowed In certain territory on most tickets. Proportionately low rates from points in Iowa and Ne braska. For full information write to E. D. ROCKWELL, Dist. Pass. Agt., Northern Pacific R'y. Des Moines, la. Waurika, Okia A new town on main line of Rock Island Ry., 63 miles south of Chick asha. The only one lying in Okla homa. Lot sale Oct. 13. A demand for all kinds of business. Beautifully situated 'mid large shade trees and running, water. Home seekers of Oct. 7th should purchase their tickets through, mak ing their stops at other points on going-trip. Hon. Elmer J. Burkett, Hon John J. McCarthy, Hon. Edmund H. Hinshaw, Hon. George W. Norris, Hon. Moses P. Kinkaid, Gentlemen, if elected to Congress, will you vote for or against the Fowler Bill? The Fowler currency bill embodies all the iniquitous features of the old wild cat banking plan. It provides for bank notes issued on bank assets, for branch banks, for retirement of the greenbacks, and for making silver dollars redeemable in gold on demand of the holder. It is the foundation stone of a banker' trust. The Fowler bill has been recommended for passage by the republican majority of the house committee on banking and currency. The people of your respective districts have a right to know where you stand on this question. At present you are maintaining a discreet silence. But thi is cowardly. Have you the courage to say publicly what you will do if elected and called upon to vote on the Fowler bill? Orders for the following combinations by the Farmers' Grocery Com pany. We offer you 50 lbs best Granulated Sugar for $1.00 along with the other goods that are lower than what you now pay. Besides we pay half the freight, making your groceries cost you about 25 per cent less than they do now. The goods well, there are absolutely none better. We sell on our reputation. Pack securely every item. We're pains taking. Have thousands of customers buying of us by mail. .lust a trial order from you then we'll have another regular customer. Head: One-half Freight Charges Prepaid. Special Combination No. 84. bo Ids. best fine granulated sugar. $1 8 lbs. Lion or Arbuckle's Coffee. 1 25 bars laundry soap 1 3 lbs. best tea 1 1 lb. pure pepper. . . 2 lbs. best baking powder 5 pkgs. best yeast cakes 3 pkgs. best soda 3 cans lye 2 lbs. fancy evaporated peaches. 6 lbs. best raisins y2 lb. best ginger 6 lbs. best rice 6 lbs. California prunes 2 lbs. choice mixed candy 8 lbs. rolled oats 3 cans oysters 1 largest box matches. . 2 bottles lemon extract. . 2 bottles Vanilla extract. 1 box starch 3 pkgs. stove polish 3 10c cakes tar soap. . . . 00 00 00 50 25 50 25 25 25 25 50 25 50 50 25 25 25 25 20 20 10 25 25 (510 00 All the above packed securely and delivered free to our railroad station for $10. Every article warranted to please you. Combination No. 83. 50 lbs. best fine granulated sugar. 8 lbs. Lion or Arbuckle's coiTee. 25 bars laundry soap 3 lbs. best tea 1 lb. pure pepper 2 lbs. best baking powder 5 pkgs. best yeast cakes 3 pkgs. best soda 3 cans lye 3 10c pkgs. washing powder 6 lbs. best raisins lb. best ginger. 6 lbs. best rice 3 10c pkgs. stove polish 6 lbs. California prunes 3 large cakes tar soap 2 lbs. choice mixed candy 8 lbs. rolled oats 3 cans oysters 1 largest box matches 2 bottles lemon extract 2 bottles vaniila extract 1 box starch $1 -o l fo 1 i t 1 5 5 5ti 5 .' 2" f . 1 25 25 I'm l'n lo $10 (Ml All the above packed securely ami delivered free to our railroad station for $10. Every article warranted to please you. Satisfaction given in all cases or money returned. The Farmers Grocery Company 226-228-230-232-234-236-238-240 Illinois Central R.R, OF INTEREST TO STOCKHOLDERS Free Transportation to Attend the Special and Annual Meetingat Chicago. Public notice is hereby triTen that a roecial meeting of the tock holders oi the Illinois Cen tral Kailroad Company will be held e.t the Company's office in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday, August Z, at eleven o'clock in the fore noon; also that the regular annual meeting of tne stockuoiaers 01 tne Company will on bold at its offices in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday. October 15, liXJ'i, at noon. To permit personal attendance at these meet ings there will be issued to each holder of one or more shares of the capital stock of the Illi nois Central Kailroad Company as registered on the books of the Company at the close of business on Friday, August 1, 19J2. and to Htock holders of record 011 Friday, September 19, 1502, a ticket enabling him or her to travel free oyer the Company's lines from the station on the Illinois Central Kailroad nearest to his or her registered address to Chicago and return, such ticket to be good for the journey to Chicago only during the four days immediately preced ing, and the day of the meeting, and for the re turn journey from Chicago only on the day of the meeting, and the four days immediately following-, when properly countersigned and stamped during business hours that is to say, between 9:U)a. tn. and 5:00 p.m. in the office of the Assistant Secretary, Mr. W. G. Bix'in, in Chicago. Such ticket may be obtained by any holder o stock registered as above, on ap plication, in writing, to the President of the Company in Chicago. Each application must state the full name and address of the stock holder exactly as given in his or her certificate of stock, together with the number and date of such certificate. No more than one person will be carried free in respect to any one holding of stock as registered on the books of the Com pany. A. G. HACKSTAl; E Secretary. ROY'S DRUG STORE 104 Nomnoih si. We say "Roy's" drug store as a matter of fact It Is EVERYBODY'S drug store almost. Roy only con ducts It, buys and keep3 to sell ,he goods, and meet and force competition. Our patrons do the rest. We want U remind you of seasonable goods, viz Garden Seeds, Condltl - Powders, Lice Killers, D. B. Poison, Kalsomlne, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc. Wo make a specialty of all kinds uf Stock and Poultry Food3, etc. Dor t miss us. Roys' 104 do Kill op aa a n av 1 tc ts: I Ak ire i a CC3 nOUSE COLLARS .J;rUfiKBioridreHieBecm,, Hi ASKYOURPeauhtoSHOWT BEFORE YOU BUY. MANUFACTURED BY HARPHAM BROS.CO. Lincoln, Neb. For Sale A 320-acre farm 2 miles north of Holbrook in Gosper county; house of 11 rooms and two cellars, bricked and cement floors, soft water cistern, good well and mill with two stock cisterns, 100-bbl. capacity; barn, cribs, gran ary, chicken house, hog lot, correls, etc.; also blacksmith shop, 200 acres In pasture, enclosed with three wire's, timber grove and wind break; over 100 acres under cultivation; school house on S. E. corner of place. Terms, not Ipse than one-third down, balance on reasonable terms. Price, $3,500; will do a little better all cash; reason for selling, change of business. Call at farm 2-5-24, or address Richard Cawthra, Holbrook, Neb. FREEZE OUT SALE! It is impossible fcr us to get a lease on our present quarters at any price and we are forced out of business. We intend to make competition so strong while we remain in business, that every one in the state will remember the Freeze Out Sale. Here is a corporal's guard of price1 selected from a regiment of bargains: 50c Kermott's Swamp Root 20c 50c Hall's Herbs 1C $1 Temptation Tonic 59c $1 Neal's Hair Tonic 59o Stock Foods, Heavy Drugs, Lubricat ingOils, 33 off. Peruna, Milos, Celery Compound, 8. S. S Pinkhams G4c each H bottles. Keep your eye on this space for bar gains. OSvocr Cut Rate KlggS Pharmacy. The Pleasure of a Journey to the east will be greatly enhanced by making the trip via B. & O. S. W. Lowest rates St. Louis to New York. Stop-over at Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Three dally vestlbuled trains. 8 3-4 hours to Cincinnati and Louis ville. Extremely low rates will be made t: Washington, D. C, In October, ac count Grand Army Encampment. Write for particulars and "Guide to Washington." Over the Alleghanies. . Scenery Unsurpassed. Observation Dining Cars. F. D. GILDERSLEEVE, Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agent. St. Louis, Mo.